Tyler, The Creator: WUSYANAME

Short and sweet, “WUSYANAME” by Tyler, The Creator features on the artist’s upcoming album, Call Me If You Get Lost. Its sound is a departure from his previous offerings, with elements of old-school R&B and New Jack Swing. In the track, Tyler, The Creator tells the tale of a planned romance, wherein he wants to cook breakfast, travel to France and watch independent films. The …

Motel 7: Messing With Fire

LA-based alt-pop duo Motel 7 (aka Anton Khabbaz and Dylan Jagger Lee) follow up their anthemic debut single, “Are We There Yet,” with “Messing With Fire,” a layered, genre-defying track driven by emotion and sincerity. “This was one of the first songs we wrote for this EP. I remember it setting the tone for lots of the other tracks in terms of bass and drum energy,” …

Tycho + Ben Gibbard: Only Love

Multi-talented composer, musician, producer and visual artist Tycho (aka Scott Hansen) teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard for “Only Love,” a track that’s a seamless blend of the two artists’ sounds. The lyrics (“Only love will save this place”) are sweet, and Tycho’s glitchy effects and brilliant production round out the song into a hopeful anthem.